Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-11-30
LIVE STOCK NOTES.
The Probability Of Inc Railroads Fur
nisElng Enough Cars 10 Fill the
DtmanG ffam ofipp rs.
There Is a Big De.nanu for Fecdipg Cat
Tle-The uorso 8ussnoes Fakes q
Spurt--3Um Big cales


CAPTAIN LIE OF Graldvi@w WAS N the
city Yesterday locking FIR feeders.
Mr.. Bozz Ct TsrTabt county purchased
q couple Of hundred ie- dug steers from
me-, :. C Hon, tbs r niger cstlleman,
whiIe he later was ForE Worth.
Mr.. N. c. Hurley yesterday brought in
ca load IS cows from his ranch near
HASH which ~ sod 10 local butchers.
The cattle were Il tiue condition.
MID B. Gardner OF She Pitchfork
Cattle Company was in the city yester-
day, making arrangements for CARS to
ship large nerd Wlicn is now Waiting at
Harold.
There were several morse buyers II
Fort Worth yesterday from Mississippi,
Louisiana and East Texas points. The
horse business is taking on little squirt
and several deals sre under way.
Mr.. johnson, Stuck dealer of Wood
vile, Miss. was on the Fort Worth
market yesterday. He is after horses.
This is Mr.. Johnson's first trip TO this
sec ion of the state, and he is pleased
with the country and the market, and will
probably take back with him some North
Texas stock.
Mr.. G. C.. Harris, Missouri desler il
fancy horse sh, was in Fort Worth last
evening. He has with him 8 stallion by
Longfellow out of Alphonse. He
brought to Texas several head OF
trotting stock which he has dis
posed of with the exception of this one.
He sold foe trottiDg stallion, Wild wood,
to Mr Dave Light of Pilot Point. Mr..
Harris goes to Youpg county this morning.
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Mr. Frank Wilson, Comsuche county
stCckmsn, passed through he city yester-
day with five carloads Of iour-year-old
cattle which he Was taking to the Chicag"
market. Mr.. Wilson says grass has not
been so good nor cattle in such fine shape
in ComBucbe county since 80, and the
statement W1s borne out by the samples
q stock he had with him. He expects to
lie able 10 ship out grass csttle in Jan
Uary.
a GAZETTE man, yesterday, found
select company Of cat'lemen sitting about
the steve in Tom Andrews cosy fife.
"These short cold spells of rain do not
hurt the grass" said one, "Out il 1t is
continued warm rain the grass rots st the
bottom, and the fl 81 gust OF wind blows
the green tops away"
"Aud it kills the moss" said another,
(which causes great mortality among the
cattle grazing On it. l have seen the
grass SIX feet nigh on the cosst and the
cattle lust falling over dead. You could
NOT STE the c.rcssses 30 high was the
grass. The cause was dead moss. When
green the moss ie good enough for the
cattle, but when dead it balls in their
ssomashs and they topple over"
Mr.. W. J. Montrief of Fort Worth was
seen yesterday and questioned about the
Arkansas horse and mule markets in
which he has been dealing during thespast
summer. The mule market there,
said he, is about closed till spring; but
the business in those animals does not
amount to so much as that in horses, of
which immense numbers have been dis
posed of lately by Texas dealers. He esti-
mates that leo carloads of Texas horses
have been sold there since August l
Southern Arkansas takes most of them,
there being great many negroes in that
part of the state, some of them well fixed,
who use the horses for riding, while for
fsrm purposes they keep mules. TIE
prices paid ranged oil the way from SIS
to SIS.
s"s
Captain A. S. Nicholson is very busy
man these days and he reports having
done 8 lively business during the past
week During that time he has been up
the Fort Worth and Denver and made
some very hesvy sales. To D. G. Hill of
Mckinney he sold $50 feeding steers; to
Mabry, Savage & MastOn Of Johnson and
Ellis counties he sold 500 Matsdor steers
st 50 25; 400 MatsdOr steers, two years
old, to J. M. Shelton for $1.75, all to be
made up st Fort Worth; and to G. B. and
3. M. Dsggett l25 three and four-year-
old feeding cattle at 81 Captain Nichol-
son saYs grass up the Denver road Is
short, but the cattle are IN good cOndi-
ton for the winter and there is plenty of
water. The late rain Will have q bad
effect on the stock, but will not hurt the
grass. He goes bsck to the Panhandle
AGAIN in couple OF days.
Yesterday the Texas and Pacific Rsil-
WAY officials st Fort Worth received
orders from Captain S. Judy, superin-
tendens of the Rio Grsnde division, for
1000 stock cars for the west, to be sent
out as quickly as possible. A GAZETTE
man ipquiredg IL there were SUFFICIENT
cars a. hand 10 supply the demand, and
was Informed that there were not.
twenty-five or thirty cara may be sup
piled each day. but that is high esti-
mate; and although the company is max
ing strenuous efforts to get csrs TO &C.
commodate the stockmen, the prospec S
appear to be thst the number supplied
will fall far short CT the demand. The
number sent north lately has been greater
than usual, and it takes some time for
them to be returned. There have been
thirty carloads of stock pass through Fort
Worth each day for the past three weeks.
The attention of the chronic kickers
sgsinst Chicago is agsin called to the New
York live stock market report, by the
Stock Journal. To Chicsgo is laid all the
ills that have of late befsIlen the beef
msIket, but still it is known that the
stocs is slaughtered, and from there 1t y
distributed 10 the grest centers of popu.
lation all over the country. Dressed
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